As the BBC (and others) have reported, a woman in Kabul named Farkhunda was beaten to death by a mob.

The mob was incited by an imam who accused her of burning a Koran. No evidence of this ‘crime’ was presented.

A different side of the story (which I heard in the BBC World Service this morning) is that Farkhunda had attempted to shame the imam for selling worthless charms to childless women, and that he retaliated by accusing her of the Koran burning.

IN ANY EVENT: Pakistan has a ways to go before I will start to take it seriously as anything more than a pretty good international cricket team.

“Finally, someone is being held to account about misleading America about the Iraq War. Never again will Brian Williams mislead this great nation about being shot at in a war we probably wouldn’t have ended up in if the media had applied this level of scrutiny to the actual fucking war.”
— John Stewart